Success Quotes - Page 144

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and desire to put it into practice. That person won’t be as successful as the person who understands some basics and puts them into action regularly.

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A successful man earns the respect of the world never mind what is the state of his mind, or his manner of earning. So what is the good of such respect, and how happy will such a man be in himself? And if he is what passes for happy, such a state is lower than the self-content of the meanest animal.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.